A Woman’s Sweet Lemons Life, Love and Personal growth This is an inspirational story of a woman who chose to rise above her misfortunes and live her life to the full, despite the challenges she faced. The old adages, “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade,” and “When people throw bricks at you, use them to construct your empire” and “sticks and stones may hurt my bones but talk can never hurt me,” have never been more applicable, relevant and appropriate. All cultures should embrace the fact that there is a paradigm shift in as far as how women should be treated in the home, in business, at the work place, in the community and in society as a whole. Failure to recognize, acknowledge and adapt with this shift is tantamount to being left behind while the whole world moves on. Whether we are young or old, misfortunes are a part of our lives. Misfortunes are to our lives as lemons are to our taste buds. Lemons are bitter but depending on how you use them, they can help to make an otherwise non appetizing dish look very appealing and taste very delicious, resulting in A Woman’s Sweet Lemons.

The long-awaited sequel to The Black Madonna of Derby, Sweetest Enemy continues the story of the Baran family in the 1980s and 1990s.

A dishy, incisive exploration of gossip--from celebrity rumors to literary romans à clef, from personal sniping to political slander--by one of our "great essayists" (David Brooks) To his successful examinations of some of the most powerful forces in modern life--envy, ambition, snobbery, friendship--the keen observer and critic Joseph Epstein now adds Gossip. No trivial matter, despite its reputation, gossip is eternal and necessary. Himself a master of the art, Epstein serves up delightful mini-biographies of the Great Gossips of the Western World along with many choice bits from his own experience. He also makes a powerful case that gossip has morphed from its old-fashioned best--clever, mocking, a great private pleasure--to a corrosive new-school version, thanks to the reach of the mass media and the Internet. Gossip has even invaded politics and journalism, causing unsubstantiated information to be presented as fact. Contemporary gossip claims to reveal truth, but as Epstein shows, it's our belief in truth itself that may be destroyed by gossip. Written in his trademark erudite and witty style, Gossip captures the complexity of this immensely entertaining subject.

Adventurous life experiences shared from four different continents invoke 'Enlightenment through Entertainment'. This compelling story of migration is a personal voyage of self-discovery. Melding values from the east and the west, to achieve the best of both worlds..., it’s a journey from separation and alienation to integration.

Challenging conventional notions about the place of women in Muslim societies, the Bihishti Zewar (Heavenly Ornaments) gives life to the themes of religious and social reform that have too often been treated in the abstract. This instructional guidebook, used by the world's largest population of Muslims, is a vital source for those interested in modern Indian social and intellectual history, in Islamic reform, and in conceptions of gender and women's roles. The Bihishti Zewar was written in northern India in the early 1900s by a revered Muslim scholar and spiritual guide, Maulana Ashraf 'Ali Thanawi (1864-1943), to instruct Muslim girls and women in religious teachings, proper behavior, and prudent conduct of their everyday lives. In so doing, it sets out the core of a reformist version of Islam that has become increasingly prominent across Muslim societies during the past hundred years. Throughout the work, nothing is more striking than the extent to which the book takes women and men as essentially the same, in contrast to European works directed toward women at this time. Its rich descriptions of the everyday life of the relatively privileged classes in turn-of-the-century north India provide information on issues of personality formation as well as on family life, social relations, household management, and encounters with new institutions and inventions. Barbara Metcalf has carefully selected those sections of the Bihishti Zewar that best illustrate the themes of reformist thought about God, the person, society, and gender. She provides a substantial introduction to the text and to each section, as well as detailed annotations.